Putting a commander like Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder into play can be a dangerous step – he’s obviously going to pump out cascade if he swings at someone, and you’re often unprotected due to a desire to commence your game plan. The recent addition of the cycle of cast for free without a commander spells out of Commander 2020, such as Fierce Guardianship and Deflecting Swat are a good addition to the meta in my opinion because they allow you to protect your commander to a certain degree once it’s in play, though the black one – Deadly Rollick is a creature removal spell, and the green and white spells are particularly lame – white’s Flawless Manuever really seems like it ought to give your commander hexproof until the end of the turn (then it would protect from deadly rollick) and green’s Obscuring Haze is even more underpowered. It basically stops the deck in it’s tracks. I have a friend who plays a Neheb, the Eternal combo deck, and one of the easiest solutions is to just blow up Neheb. This is both a strength and a weakness of commander, because you always have access to a certain mechanic or combo piece, but at the same time the other players can see what mechanic or combo piece you have access to, and frequently deduce what your deck does and how necessary it is. The weakness of a commander like this is that other players can often detect that your entire deck hinges on whatever ability the commander grants. Yidris might be thought of as Temur + Black, because most strong cascade abilities lie within Temur, and he’s certainly all about cascading. I’ve previously written about Atraxa and I’ll cover Breya Etherium, Etherium Shaper and Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis in due time, though I don’t see the point of Saskia the Unyielding the etb effect is unpleasant and unfun and simply doesn’t do much in a four-player game, the best solution would be some kind of curiosity draw combo, except of course Saskia is sans blue. Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder comes out of a cycle of commanders from 2016, each possessed of 4 colors, each costing one colored mana of each of their colors. This week we’re looking at Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder. In Commander Focus, we look at building around different Legendary creatures each week for the Commander format.
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